Program
Wednesday 2 February, 2022 - Sunday 7 February, 2021
As part of our March Dance program, Critical Path has offered the following Space Grants and Bursaries to artists to contribute to the 2022 festival curation strand BODIES OF KNOWLEDGE Space Grant Recipients 7 to 10 March - Sarah Aiken Drawing on the physical...
Tuesday 30 November, 2021 - Friday 30 December, 2022
Choreographer, performer, scholar, teacher and producer Dr Laura (Amara) Osweiler’s research is based upon sharing and expanding her current practice beyond herself. Her project builds upon her 30 years as a Traditional and Contemporary Middle Eastern Dancer and...
Tuesday 30 November, 2021 - Saturday 31 December, 2022
Exploring belonging, connection, community and place, Queer Blind dance artist and maker Alex Craig works collaboratively, opening and holding space for a collective experience of dance that is not centred upon visual sight. For their 2022 Critical Path Research...
Tuesday 30 November, 2021 - Saturday 31 December, 2022
For the 2022 Critical Path Research Residency, independent choreographer and dancer Cloé Fournier together with physical theatre director David Clarkson, and digital artist Matthew Hugues will combine forces to explore the complex relationship between digital...
Tuesday 30 November, 2021 - Saturday 31 December, 2022
Alan and WeiZen are performers, devisors and creators who investigate questions regarding interculturality, ceremony, embodied spaces, and methods of animation, inhabitation and activation. They work both individually and in collaboration. In this project the artists...
Tuesday 30 November, 2021 - Saturday 31 December, 2022
Critical Path is supporting four artist/artist duos in 2022 in artist-led research residencies. These research projects focus on explorations of new ideas, process or practice development without a pre-determined product outcome. The recipients of the 2022 Critical...
Monday 15 November - Friday 31 December, 2021
This video work was commissioned by Critical Path for the Dancing Sydney: Mapping Movements: Performing Histories project 2019. Alan Schacher, "Through a series of Covid-related hiccups the project was completed nearing the end of 2021. I was invited to work on an...
Wednesday 27 October - Thursday 28 October, 2021
Before I share my story, I would love to invite you to the regular open jam MIXTAPE.SESSIONS happening every Wednesday, 6:30 pm at ICC, Dancers Alley. All styles are welcome, all levels are welcome, YOU ARE WELCOME! A jam session is an informal session of dancers...
Monday 18 October - Friday 31 December, 2021
Ceguva meaning ‘to breathe’ in Vosa Vakaviti is a collaborative & explorative storytelling digital residency led by Tokelauan Fijian storyteller, Emele Ugavule. Throughout this movement residency about process, three expert Oceanic movers and choreographers are...
Friday 1 October - Saturday 30 October, 2021
Australian and Taiwanese artists started their online residency by filming introduction videos where they talked about their practice and then met online together. For their second session they had online group meetings, shared their dinner/lunch and discussed about...
Monday 20 September - Sunday 26 September, 2021
Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time. Reina Takeuchi, Amy Zhang, William (Billy) Keohavong and Jeremy Santos was a recipient of a 5-day space grant at The Drill Hall in...
Monday 13 September - Sunday 19 September, 2021
Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time. Amy Zhang was a recipient of a 5-day space grant at The Drill Hall in September. Amy is a movement artist currently focused on...
Tuesday 24 August - Monday 22 November, 2021
APPLICATIONS CLOSE 10AM, TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2021 Critical Path is offering 4 funded artist-led research residencies in 2022. Artists with a choreographic practice are invited to propose research projects that focus on explorations of new ideas, process or practice...
Sunday 1 August - Sunday 31 October, 2021
Critical Path in collaboration with Performance Space has been supporting the development of new presentation outcomes of Ivey Wawn’s In Perpetuity project. During her residency at the Drill, Ivey created live and recorded materials for her project. The developed...
Saturday 17 July - Monday 19 July, 2021
Critical Path supported by NORPA is offering the following artists the opportunity to attend a 3-day Development Project based in Lismore. The selected artists are Jade Dewi Tyas Tunggal (NSW), Juliet Burnett (QLD), Matthew Day (NSW), Mitch King (NSW), Nadia Milford...
Monday 5 July - Sunday 11 July, 2021
Su Yu Hsin (Taiwanese artist) and Angela Goh (Australian choreographer) are in residence at the Drill Hall (and online) researching their work "Tidal Variations" (working title) which will premiere later this year in Australia, Taiwan and online. Image courtesy of the...
Wednesday 23 June - Friday 31 December, 2021
23 July 2021 Lismore, NSW As an antidote to speed networking we are offering up to 30 practitioners the chance for a conversation with sector peers, advisors and leaders. The idea is not to network, not to sell or to buy, not to SPEED anything. A conversation amongst...
Monday 21 June - Wednesday 26 May, 2021
Critical Path in collaboration with BlakDance and in support of the BlakForm online Marketing program, will deliver a 6-day Lab intensive with 7 First Nations artists at the Drill Hall. Each of these artists come to the Lab with valuable insights to their own dance...
Tuesday 1 June - Wednesday 30 June, 2021
The Critical Path/Catapult ‘Studio Exchange’ aims to facilitate the movement of artists between the two organisations and between metropolitan Sydney and regional Newcastle. The visiting artists use this opportunity to invite connections with local artists and open up...
Monday 31 May - Friday 11 June, 2021
Weizen Ho will be in residence with Critical Path (space grant) for two weeks. “I use hair in different ways, as metaphor, to transform physical and social spaces, within which I access different entity-embodiment processes through movement, gesture and voice. From a...
Tuesday 18 May - Sunday 30 May, 2021
The Experimental Choreographic Residency (ECR) is presented by Critical Path and Performance Space. The ECR supports a 2-week period of research & creative development that explores experimental or interdisciplinary approaches to choreography. This year, the ECR...
Thursday 1 April - Friday 30 April, 2021
What is Open Tab? The Open Tab project is a sharing of methodology and insights from artists working at the nexus of choreography and digital - in the form of a wiki. "A wiki is a hypertext publication collaboratively edited and managed by its own audience directly...
Monday 1 March - Wednesday 31 March, 2021
1 – 31 March 2021 March Dance is a project of Independent Dance Alliance (IDA) a collaboration between Critical Path, DirtyFeet and ReadyMade Works who have joined forces with other companies and organisations to support artists’ participation in this month-long dance...
Friday 26 February - Friday 5 March, 2021
Critical Path offers the use of our Research Room to artists where it might be available. Diane Busuttil is in the Research Room in February and March 2021. Diane Busuttil is a physical performer who trained as a dancer at the University of Western Sydney,...
Thursday 25 February - Thursday 11 March, 2021
Dean Walsh has a two-week space residency at The Drill Hall leading up to his presentation of Context Is Everything in March Dance. Starting in 1990 with his first work, Homme Fatale, this “performed archive” functions as a fascinating tour guide of some of the more...
Monday 15 February - Friday 26 February, 2021
Critical Path and PYT Fairfield have partnered on a choreographic lab since 2018. The aim of the lab is to give Western Sydney dance artists and choreographers an opportunity to deepen their research into their own practice, while co-sharing the studio and exchange...
Tuesday 9 February - Saturday 13 February, 2021
Critical Path offers small space grants to artists in need where The Drill Hall might be available for short periods of time. Niv Rajendra was a recipient of a 5-day space grant at The Drill Hall in February. Niv is a spiritual and ecological artist working...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
no man’s land ‘no man’s land’ is not situated between two opposing trenches – it is a space yet to be revealed. Is it a contested territory? This research aims to visit that which is deemed “too touchy”. Together, Vicki and Raghav will revisit past material; ‘Dance...
Friday 1 January - Friday 31 December, 2021
Collaborators David Huggins and Lauren Eiko investigate the fictions and non-fictions inherent in the ongoing discovery and construction of personal cultural identities, through a choreographic framework. Additional collaborators are ‘teacher’ Akashi-Suma, Ryuichi...
Friday 1 January, 12am - Friday 31 December, 2021 11pm
Belonging/s In a creative / cultural exchange with Preethi Athreya (Chennai), Amaara Raheem (Black Range) researched and built a museologically inspired ‘collection’ of gestures from handling objects sourced in each of their family homes. The research weaved these...
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